{{short description|Belgian football club}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = Stade Leuven | image = | fullname = Koninklijke Stade Leuven | founded = {{start date and age|1903|11|12|df=y}} as "R. Stade Louvaniste" | dissolved = {{end date and age|2002}} (merged into [[Oud-Heverlee Leuven|OH Leuven]]) | league = Belgian third division, group B | season = 2001 | position = 6th | pattern_la1 = | pattern_b1 = | pattern_ra1 = | pattern_sh1 = | pattern_s1 = | leftarm1 = 008000 | body1 = 008000 | rightarm1 = 008000 | shorts1 = FFFFFF | socks1 = 008000 | pattern_la2 = | pattern_b2 = _ | pattern_ra2 = | pattern_s2 = | leftarm2 = FFFFFF | body2 = FFFFFF | rightarm2 = FFFFFF | shorts2 = FFFFFF | socks2 = FFFFFF }}

'''Koninklijke Stade Leuven''' was a Belgian [[association football|football]] club from the city of [[Leuven]], [[Flemish Brabant]] that existed between 1903 and 2002.

==History== The club was founded as Stade Louvaniste and wore the [[matricule]] n°18. It was admitted to the first season ever of the [[Belgian Second Division|second division]] in 1910–11. It left the second division in 1949 to play in the [[Belgian First Division A|first division]] for one season. The club was eventually relegated to the [[Belgian Third Division|third division]] in 1953. It played in the second division again from 1981 to 1983 and from 1988 to 1991. In 2002 K. Stade Leuven as it was named since 1967 merged with [[F.C. Zwarte Duivels Oud-Heverlee]] (''Zwarte Duivels'' means Black Devils) and [[Daring Club Leuven]] to become [[Oud-Heverlee Leuven]] with the matricule n°6142 of the "Black Devils" Players 1982-1985: Van Outvelt,Mertens, Dallo, Arabat, Plessers, Van Minsel P.Van Groenvelt, Jonckers, Desmet, Decocker.

[[Belgium national football team|Belgium national team]] player [[Dries Mertens]], who is from Leuven, started his career at Stade Leuven as a boy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mijnleuven.be/artikel/dries-mertens-over-zijn-leven-als-voetballer|title=Dries Mertens over zijn leven als voetballer|access-date=13 October 2017|archive-date=13 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013172132/http://www.mijnleuven.be/artikel/dries-mertens-over-zijn-leven-als-voetballer|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References== '''Cited sources''' {{reflist}}

'''Further reading''' * [http://users.skynet.be/pluto/Textbelgium/Teams.html Belgian football clubs history] * [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/belghist.html RSSSF Archive]&nbsp;– 1st and 2nd division final tables

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